We built the operating system for a whole industry.
Not a website for one restaurant. Ordering, reservations, waitlist, kitchen display and loyalty — designed from nothing, shipped, and now running as its own business with real restaurants on it.
Why we built it.
Our founder owned two restaurants in Jersey City and closed them in late 2025. Going through the books line by line, the problem wasn't any one vendor — it was all of them stacked. Delivery apps at 15–30% of the check. An ordering platform at $249 a month plus 5% of every order. A reservation system charging per cover.
There's a whole industry built on top of your restaurant, and almost none of it wants to cook. It wants a slice.
So we built the replacement. One platform doing what five vendors were doing, on a flat monthly, taking no percentage of anything the restaurant sells.
What we had to build.
Every one of these is a system in its own right. It's also why a client build starts at 60% rather than zero — this is already solved.
Ordering engine
Menus, modifiers, pricing rules, pickup and delivery windows, and payment capture.
Reservations & waitlist
Floor capacity, party sizing, quoted wait times, and SMS callbacks.
Kitchen display
Real-time ticket routing that runs in a browser on hardware the restaurant already owns.
Loyalty
Points, rewards and repeat-visit tracking tied to the restaurant's own customer list.
Site builder + SEO
Every restaurant gets a real site with ongoing search work, generated from the same data.
Owner dashboard
Orders, covers, revenue, and the customer database — exportable, and theirs.
Restaurants running on it today.
Looking for the platform itself rather than a custom build? We Know Restaurants has its own site, with pricing and a free fee audit.
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“I've been building since the yellow pages mattered more than the internet.”Tony · Founder, LFG Ventures